Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
adventure | to risk, to dare. |
adventuresome | inclined to take risks. |
apperil | (Shakesp.) peril. |
apperill | (Shakesp.) peril. |
chance | that which happens or results without assignable cause (verb) to risk |
chancily | (Adv.) CHANCY, risky, uncertain. |
chancy | risky, uncertain. |
danger | peril, hazard; (verb, arch.) to endanger. |
dangerless | without danger. |
dangerous | full of danger. |
dangerously | (Adv.) DANGEROUS, full of danger. |
dicey | risky. |
endanger | to imperil. |
endangerer | one who endangers. |
hazard | a risk, a danger; (verb) to venture. |
hazardable | liable to hazard or chance; uncertain; risky. |
hazarder | one who hazards. |
hazardize | (Spenser) a hazardous position, a condition of peril or risk. |
hazardous | dangerous. |
hazardously | (Adv.) HAZARDOUS, dangerous. |
hazmat | hazardous material. |
imperil | to endanger. |
imperilment | the act of imperilling. |
jeopard | to put in jeopardy; to imperil. |
jeopardise | to expose to loss or injury. |
jeopardize | to expose to loss or injury. |
jeopardous | (Obs.) perilous; hazardous. |
jeopardously | (Adv.) JEOPARDOUS, perilous. |
jeopardy | exposure to or imminence of death, loss, or injury; the danger that an accused person is subjected to when on trial; (verb) to put into jeopardy. |
micromort | a unit of risk equal to a one in a million chance of dying. |
parlous | perilous. |
parlously | (Adv.) PARLOUS, perilous. |
periclitate | (Arch.) to endanger; to jeopardise. |
periculous | (Obs.) dangerous. |
peril | danger; (verb) to expose to danger. |
perilous | dangerous. |
perilously | (Adv.) PERILOUS, dangerous. |
perlous | (Spenser) perilous. |
precarious | insecure, uncertain. |
precariously | (Adv.) PRECARIOUS, insecure, uncertain. |
risk | a chance of injury or loss (verb) to expose to a risk |
risker | one who risks or hazards. |
riskless | lacking in risk. |
risque | (Fr.) bordering on the unseemly; (noun, obs.) risk. |
steepeup | (Shakesp.) precipitous or perilous. |
steepup | (Shakesp.) precipitous or perilous. |
tossup | an even chance or risk. |
ultrahazardous | extremely hazardous. |
unhazardous | not hazardous. |
unperilous | not perilous. |
venture | to risk. |
venturesome | involving risk. |
venturesomely | (Adv.) VENTURESOME, involving risk. |
venturesomeness | the state of being venturesome. |
wager | to risk on an uncertain outcome. |
wanchancie | (Scots) unlucky, dangerous, uncanny. |
wanchancy | (Scots) unlucky, dangerous, uncanny. |